Sweet Bastard

Chapter 4

One week later.

"VANESSA!," A loud voice screams from downstairs. Shit.

Heavy footsteps near the room and then an angry Seth opens the door. "What?" I ask feeling queasy. "Why is your brother here?" I instantly hop out of bed. "Wait, What?" I ask dumbly; not on purpose. "I'm not in the mood for your games, Vanessa. I swear to god if you don't tell me why there here your dead. What did you do?," he says trough this teeth.

"I'm serious I don't know what your talking about." He grabs my wrist and pulls out of the bed. Revealing me in my bra and underwear. "It was hot." He clenches his jaw and walked out he comes back shortly. He has a shirt and some shorts. I put them on. His clothes are huge on me.

I follow close behind him down the steps. "What hell did you do to my sister!" My brother says angrily. "Calm down."
"Where's my sister," He says becoming quiet. I walk past Seth towards my brother. I walk to him and wrap my arms around him. He cry's softly into my shoulder. "I told you I would never leave you."

My brother took it hard when we had gotten taken away from our parents. I had to take the duty of an older sister and I had to be there for him. "Nessa!" Arms wrap around my legs. "Aiden baby. I missed you." I let go of Brandon and bend down to Aiden. "Daddy was worried." He whispered, which is unlike his normal yelling voice. "I know, I'm sorry."

I sighed heavily and glanced up to see Seth staring holes in my head. "I see I have some things I need to tell you."
"Yeah, you have some things to tell me too." His voice is low; Jesus this scary. "Why don't we sit down." I lead us to the couch and we all take a seat. I spot Brett smirking and now that I'm thinking back to it he was probably the one who made this whole mess.

He kept asking me question and he kept wanting to know things about me. The things he was asking me weren't normal either. I sat Aiden down on my lap and stroked his hair. "Well Brandon, this is Seth Cancino," I introduce them. I look over at Seth for a moment. "He's my uh-" I stutter stupidly. "Fiancé," Seth says cutting in.

"Since when do you date and what are you talking about a marriage." He scoffs. "Hey, I have a life. Besides it was best to keep this a secret." I say making it up as I go. Seth then rest his hand on my thigh where the shorts had ridden up a little. Brandon's eyes stay glued on Seth's hand. "I don't understand, your feeding me bullshit."

Brandon pulls Aiden off my lap and places him beside him. "She's telling you the truth. We've been together for a while, she didn't want to be out in the press with the paparazzi so we kept it a secret from everyone," Seth says now speaking up. He and Brandon start talking but I don't listen to their conversation.

I sigh and put my gaze on Aiden. I now notice that his eyes are red, his face is puffy and slightly pink. "Hey what happened to Aiden?," I say cutting into their conversation. "He's been sick for the last two days." was the answer Brandon says. "He doesn't look good."
"I know I didn't know what to do and I couldn't take him anywhere. He looked like he was getting better but he woke up this morning worse."

I sigh and scold my brother. "Come here babe." Aiden walks up to me. I place my hand on his forehead and he's burning up. "How do you feel baby?" He pulls his thumb out of his mouth and then says "I don't feel well." He sounds congested.

I pick him up, placing him on my hip and walk over into the kitchen. I set him down on the barstool. I look through the drawers and find a mug. I boil some water and put it into the mug. I make the tea and also find some vinegar and honey. My grandmother made me this every time I was sick and it almost all the time worked.

"Drink this it will help, ok?"  He nods his head. "You have to be careful, it's hot. Wait until it cools." He nods again. I walk into the bathroom and look through the cabinets. I grab a rag and the rubbing alcohol.

I sit and wait until he's finished with the tea. After that I put him on the ground. I place my hand back on his forehead; and still his forehead is hot. I pour the rubbing alcohol on the rag and remove his shirt and undershirt. I rub him with the rag all over his body.

Every time I had a fever my mom would rub me with rubbing alcohol and the fever would always break. I put his undershirt back on him and grab his hand. "You tired baby?" He nods his head and rubs his puffy eyes. I lead him upstairs to a guest bedroom. I pick him up and place him down on the bed. I tuck him in and lay beside him for a while, watching him fall asleep.

Soon after he's asleep I leave the room. Brandon and Seth are still talking. I sit in the middle of them and try to catch up to what they're talking about. "You guys can move in whenever you want." I scrunch my eyebrows at Seth. "Thank you." My brother says shaking Seth's hand.

"Woah, what did I miss?"

"Well sis, Aiden and I are moving in." My jaw hit the floor. I sprung up and gave my brother a bear hug. "Oh my god. That's amazing. I won't be lonely anymore, " I say dramatically and flop back on the couch. "You had Seth here and you could have come home," he deadpans. I wanted to slap my hand on my forehead. "I mean when he was at work and I didn't want to leave."

More like I didn't have a choice to leave. My brother clenches his jaw and stares into space. "After Aiden wakes up I guess we'll get going and we'll see you two soon. Also Vanessa where's your phone."

"I -uh broke it. I haven't been able to get a new one yet," I lie. He nods his head and gets off the couch. "I think I should actually go wake him up. We have to go see mom and dad today, it's our family reunion remember?"

Shit

"Crap. I completely forgot." I sigh putting my hands over my face. "I covered for you for last week. I came up with every excuse possible. I think it would be best if you guys came later. So they won't get worried."

I was about to get up but Seth grabbed my hips and pulled me down on his lap. What is with this guy? He really likes to put on a show. "We'll think about," I say awkwardly. Brandon then starts walking toward the stairs. "Second door on the right!" I scream.

After he's gone out of sight I jab my shoulder into Seth's rock hard chest. He barely budged the first time so I hit him again but this time in the stomach. "He's gone. You can let go now," I hiss at him. He reluctantly lets go of me. "You don't have any right to demand anything. How did he get here?"

I shrug like an idiot. "I really don't know."
We both turn our heads toward Brett who looks off in an opposite direction. "Brett! What the fuck man?" Brett jumps a little and the eyes us. "Hey don't give me that look, I helped you Vanessa. You two are strange."

We both sigh heavily and fall back onto the couch. Soon after Brandon comes down the stairs caring Aiden who's still asleep. "Is he still hot?"

"Nope," He says quietly. "That's good. I'll see you later little brother."

He shoots me a glare and I instantly look down at my feet. "Bye sis," he says exiting the house.

"Well that was fantastic, it also looks like you too have a family reunion to get to," Brett says awkwardly. Seth gives the most deadliest look I've ever seen.

I think I just shit myself.
Well damn.

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